Jun 15, 2026 · 38 min · 12 segments
Jess sits down with psychiatrist and self-care expert Dr. Pooja Lakshmin. They explore how self-care isn't about bubble baths or spa days, but rather about setting boundaries, exercising compassion…
[laughs] I was telling Scott, who often is on these episodes with me, but I was telling him this morning, like, "I actually have the perfect conversation happening today on the podcast," and I was telling him how I have a self-care expert coming on and how this is just really good timing, and I was just telling you off-air that my book is due tomorrow, and so I've just been under a lot of stress.
But also, it's May right now, and anyone who has a kid in school in May knows that it's also very busy.
And so yesterday, I think I had a moment where I'm like, "I have to get this book done.
I have my clients," you know, all these other things, and then I looked at my email and I think there was six emails from school, and I was just like, "How do we do it?" Right? And, and what does it actually look like to take care of yourself when you have all these things on your plate? And what I was struggling with yesterday and what I, I thought would be a nice kinda segue into our conversation today is so many times for parents or working individuals or whoever you are, you have all these things and you can't necessarily take them all off your plate.
And I know that that's something that you talk about, because when you talk about self-care, it's not like, "Oh, just go take a bubble bath or go get your nails done." So I'm curious if you could kind of talk about that work and, and what that looks like for you.
[laughs] I was telling Scott, who often is on these episodes with me, but I was telling him this morning, like, "I actually have the perfect conversation happening today on the podcast," and I was telling him how I have a self-care expert coming on and how this is just really good timing, and I was just telling you off-air that my book is due tomorrow, and so I've just been under a lot of stress.
But also, it's May right now, and anyone who has a kid in school in May knows that it's also very busy.
And so yesterday, I think I had a moment where I'm like, "I have to get this book done.
I have my clients," you know, all these other things, and then I looked at my email and I think there was six emails from school, and I was just like, "How do we do it?" Right? And, and what does it actually look like to take care of yourself when you have all these things on your plate? And what I was struggling with yesterday and what I, I thought would be a nice kinda segue into our conversation today is so many times for parents or working individuals or whoever you are, you have all these things and you can't necessarily take them all off your plate.
And I know that that's something that you talk about, because when you talk about self-care, it's not like, "Oh, just go take a bubble bath or go get your nails done." So I'm curious if you could kind of talk about that work and, and what that looks like for you.
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